408 A Revision of the Genus- Pelecorhynchus. 



Pelecorhynchus claripennis, $ , sp. n. 



Type ( $ ) from Dandenong Ranges, Victoria, Australia. 



This species is allied to P. fusconiger, Walker, but differs 

 in the presence of bright red hairs on the sides of the thorax, 

 on the scufellum, and on abdomen, and the legs are reddish, 

 not black. 



Brown, with quite clear wings. Legs yellowish red. 



Length 15 mm. 



Face convex, divided by deep furrows from the cheeks, 

 reddish brown with black pubescence, the cheeks with some 

 grey tomentum, which also appears on the face. Palpi 

 reddish, the second joint egg-shaped, with long yellowish 

 hairs at apex. Beard pale yellow. Antenna:' destroyed 

 except the first joint, which is reddish with black hairs. 

 Forehead broad, nearly as broad anteriorly as it is long, 

 narrower at vertex, brown with short black pubescence. 

 Ocelli present. Thorax brown, covered with fulvous pubes- 

 cence, a few darker hairs intermixed ; posterior border and 

 sides of thorax dull yellowish red, with deep red hairs 

 at base of wing and on posterior border; breast reddish 

 brown, with black hairs and a large tuft of cream-white hairs 

 below wings. Scutellum same as thorax, with deep red hairs 

 on posterior border. Abdomen reddish brown, shining, with 

 scanty black pubescence on dorsum and deep red hairs 

 fringing the hind borders of the last three segments; sides 

 with some black hairs and deep red hairs, the latter most 

 numerous at apex ; underside brown, with black hairs and a 

 fringe of red hairs on second and third segments. Legs red ; 

 the femora brown, with grey tomentum and white hairs on 

 the anterior pair, black on the others; femora and tibise 

 fringed with black hairs; on upper side of middle and poste- 

 rior femora the hairs are yellowish. Wings hyaline, veins 

 yellow, all cells open, the anal vein curved. 



Pelecorhy nchus darwini, Ricardo. 

 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) v. p. 102, pi. i. fig. 1 (1900). 



Dr. Kertesz sent me for identification a male and female 

 from Concepcion, Chile, which are identical with the above 

 type from Chiloe, S. Chile, with the exception of the white 

 spots on abdomen, which in these are six in number, two each 

 on the second, third, and fourth segments ; in the type these 

 are only visible on the third and fourth segments of the 

 dorsum, though they all appear on the underside of abdomen. 



